AVI Audio Playback Problem - Solution!

There have been many posts here about a specific audio problem where an AVI clip plays fine in Media Player, but when dragged to the storyboard, the audio screeches/ plays fast/ is out of sync/ etc. What worked for me was installing an MPEG2 codec. By downloading the eval version of MainConcept's MPEG encoder (www.mainconcept.com), my imported AVI clips now play in the storyboard of MM2. My guess is that when MM2 copies the clip to the storyboard, it changes the audio playback type from PCM to MPEG2. (For more info on MPEG2, visit the "Importing Source Files/Video/MPEG2" section of PapaJohn's website at www.papajohn.org) What threw me off was the fact that my clips are Motion JPEG AVI's, so I focused my attention on AVI and MJPEG codecs and not on MPEG2 codecs. However after reading some of PapaJohn's posts about MPEG2 codecs, I decided to give that a try. It worked

Thanks PapaJohn

Cheers

Microsoft, are you listening? Many *$#@ hours wasted.

>-----Original Message-----
>There have been many posts here about a specific audio
problem where an AVI clip plays fine in Media Player, but
when dragged to the storyboard, the audio screeches/ plays
fast/ is out of sync/ etc. What worked for me was
installing an MPEG2 codec. By downloading the eval
version of MainConcept's MPEG encoder
(www.mainconcept.com), my imported AVI clips now play in
the storyboard of MM2. My guess is that when MM2 copies
the clip to the storyboard, it changes the audio playback
type from PCM to MPEG2. (For more info on MPEG2, visit
the "Importing Source Files/Video/MPEG2" section of
PapaJohn's website at www.papajohn.org) What threw me off
was the fact that my clips are Motion JPEG AVI's, so I
focused my attention on AVI and MJPEG codecs and not on
MPEG2 codecs. However after reading some of PapaJohn's
posts about MPEG2 codecs, I decided to give that a try.
It worked.
>
>Thanks PapaJohn.
>
>Cheers
>.
>

MainConcept (occassionally) produces files with the video
blacked out.

>-----Original Message-----
>There have been many posts here about a specific audio
problem where an AVI clip plays fine in Media Player, but
when dragged to the storyboard, the audio screeches/ plays
fast/ is out of sync/ etc. What worked for me was
installing an MPEG2 codec. By downloading the eval
version of MainConcept's MPEG encoder
(www.mainconcept.com), my imported AVI clips now play in
the storyboard of MM2. My guess is that when MM2 copies
the clip to the storyboard, it changes the audio playback
type from PCM to MPEG2. (For more info on MPEG2, visit
the "Importing Source Files/Video/MPEG2" section of
PapaJohn's website at www.papajohn.org) What threw me off
was the fact that my clips are Motion JPEG AVI's, so I
focused my attention on AVI and MJPEG codecs and not on
MPEG2 codecs. However after reading some of PapaJohn's
posts about MPEG2 codecs, I decided to give that a try.
It worked.
>
>Thanks PapaJohn.
>
>Cheers
>.
>